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    "localId": "28135",
    "label": "Music-Making in a Pavilion",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.38"
}

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    "id": "28135",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.38",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Music-Making in a Pavilion",
    "description": "This painting is intended to suggest an earlier ideal time: the landscape is painted in the \"blue-and-green\" style that dates back to the Tang [T'ang] Dynasty (7th-10th centuries), and the harp the lady plays is an ancient instrument. Beside the man lies a zither, the noble instrument of the leisured scholar. Qiu Ying's [Ch'iu Ying] original painting is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.",
    "provenance": "Panama-Pacific International Exposition, China Pavilion, San Francisco, 1915; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1915; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "16th century (Ming)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.38",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "kakemono",
        "scroll paintings"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_35.38_Fnt_BW_T98.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_35.38_Fnt_BW_T98.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_35.38_Fnt_BW_T98.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 232.4,
            "height": 50.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall L: 91 1/2 × W: 19 3/4 in. (232.41 × 50.17 cm); Painting L: 31 5/8 x W: 11 1/4 in. (80.3 x 28.6 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Chinese",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Qiu shi zhi; [Translation] Made by the Qiu family; [Seal] Duling neishi",
    "dynasty": "Ming (?)",
    "med": "ink and color on silk",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3848",
        "34041"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "CHN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3424"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 3,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL9_35.38_Fnt_BW_T98.jpg",
    "mediaId": "cbce05cf61c4614e"
}